A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.

Thiel made the statement while answering a question about "moralizing" new technologies.

Majority Democrats has assembled a “party within the party” of PACs, wealthy donors, and consultants pushing Democrats to the center — and testing the limits of campaign finance law.

Assembly Bill 2222 will create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has funneled just over $100 million to a group trying to defeat a one-time state tax on California’s billionaires this November.

Tim Miller has more candidates to watch and support.

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.

Witness thousands of tarantulas on the move each fall in La Junta during this rare and unforgettable nature event.

The Defense secretary pointed out that the number of service members unregistered to vote would outnumber the populations of multiple blue cities.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will now oversee a new Pentagon advisory committee focused on homeland security and defense — the first such department panel to do so. The Homeland Defense Board (HD…

Sen. Maggie Hassan (R-N.H.) wants to know specifics about what the U.S. Secret Service is spending money on after President Donald Trump diverted funds from them to his ballroom project.

Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

Under Zeldin’s leadership and Musk’s influence, an unlikely federal agency has become a key enabler of AI data centers.

David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?

Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

The disturbing global decline in test results rests on wrong-headed curriculum changes

The postal service tried to reject an entire ballot over an issue with the envelope—a dark sign of the chaos that could unfold before November’s elections.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal…

The startup, founded in 2024, has spent two years operating in near-total secrecy as it develops Anthem, a long-range heavy-payload weapon designed to be produced at a fraction of the cost of comparab...

A far-right hacker posts in tandem with DataRepublican, the X account of Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds, about hacks against the left.

Election officials have run statewide trainings preparing for federal agents to seize ballots during an active election, a scenario once considered impossible before President Donald Trump's hunt for ...

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With over 1,000 dead and thousands missing in Nepal and Tibet due to glacial collapse, campaigners and scientists argue climate action is urgently needed.

The most dangerous political misinformation of the 2026 midterm election may not go viral. You may never see it at all.

An anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.

A 20-year-old Haitian immigrant died in Springfield, Ohio, in what his family believes was a suicide following months of distress over losing his deportation protections and being fitted with an ICE a...

The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.